Founding Product Designer

Urban Ridge Supplies • New York, NY

10d

About The Position

Join a high-growth financial infrastructure company transforming the private asset market. Its live, revenue-generating platform manages complex, multi-party workflows across the full lifecycle of private asset transactions for leading financial institutions.

The mission is to build infrastructure that powers private asset transactions over their full 5–7-year lifecycle. The platform must support multiple parties, evolving permissions, recurring workflows, and new deal structures, while making AI a first-class participant alongside human users.

This is a senior design opportunity to build the product design function from the ground up. The Founding Product Designer will define what an AI-native financial platform should look and feel like, determine which workflows need exceptional interfaces and which can become infrastructure accessed directly by AI agents and other products, and shape a cohesive experience across deterministic, human-led workflows and emerging AI-native interactions.

Requirements

• Hands-on experience designing and shipping AI-native interaction patterns.
• Strong systems thinking and experience making platform- and design-system-level decisions.
• A track record of working closely with Engineering on technical architecture and design-to-engineering processes.
• An exceptional portfolio demonstrating visual craft, typography, interaction design, and strong product judgment.
• Excellent written, verbal, and storytelling skills.
• A clear point of view on how AI is changing the nature of software products and interfaces.

Responsibilities

• Build and lead the product design function, including its team structure, processes, and craft standards.
• Establish a design-to-engineering approach for a system-first product model in which the underlying platform is designed before the interface.
• Define how deterministic and AI-native interactions coexist across the product.
• Make platform-level decisions about design systems, reusable patterns, permissions, and where structural variation should live.
• Partner closely and technically with Engineering on architecture, systems, and implementation.
• Collaborate with Product on commercial translation, prioritization, and sequencing.
• Represent Design in leadership discussions and roadmap decisions.
• Help evolve how Design, Product, and Engineering work together.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed